LOST Season 5 DVD Sneak Peek #3 - Action-Figure Faraday

Here’s the third sneak peek from the upcoming December 8 release of LOST season 5 on DVD and Blu-ray:

The shoot-out at the Dharma barracks in “The Variable” was one of the biggest action sequences of LOST’s fifth season. Watch how the crew set it up, with commentary from Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Jeremy Davies (Faraday) and Eric Lange (Radzinsky).

Video courtesy of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. ©ABC Studios.

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LOST Episode 5×14 “The Variable” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis

As expected, fantastic episode. A lot to ponder.  Eric brought up a great point that it’s actually kind of devastating watching it through a second time when you think of the 30 years of heartbreak that Eloise and (probably to a lesser extent) Widmore had to go through knowing they were marching their son toward his death. Leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086 for inclusion in the podcast.  On to our thoughts:

• It looks like we can begin to piece things together regarding Hawking and Widmore’s “supervision” of Desmond (and Faraday for that matter).  Assuming they were given a “download” of information from either Farday’s notebook or some of the Losties (perhaps in exchange for getting the Losties back to 2007), it makes sense that they would steer him through life to make sure that he eventually ended up on the island.  This presumes that they know much of what is going to happen and they want it to happen and that they believe in free will.  Otherwise, perhaps they’d just fall into the ‘whatever happened, happened’ camp.  Widmore also spoke of having to “sacrifice” his relathionship with Penny, which tells me he had to do that to keep the intended path moving forward.  Also, I always thought Hawking believed in free will after she freaked out on Desmond in 3×08 Flashes Before Your Eyes when he wants the ring.  It’s either that or she’s been told that Desmond is uniquely and miraculously special, which brings me to…
• How does Farady know that the rules don’t apply to Desmond?  Was it their conversation over the radio in 4×05 The Constant and the fallout from the Failsafe Key?  Plus, does he now believe that everyone has a similar ability to exercise free will like he seemed to be stating upon his return to the island?
• Learning of how Widmore (through Hawking) had all of this future information in the past and how it seems he used it to shape how he acted in the future makes me really wonder if he’s really a bad guy or if he’s really just kind of stuck with having to carry out the master plan to get us to some future result.
• So, Widmore is Faraday’s father after all, which in turn makes Daniel and Penny half siblings.  We speculated about that after 5×03 Jughead and ran a poll about it.  56% of almost 2500 respondents thought Widmore was NOT Faraday’s father.  This has been one of the few times when the popular opinion has been wrong.
• I loved Faraday outing Miles as Chang’s kid.  Hopefully it will spur them on to future conversations.
• Hawking told Desmond in 5×06 316 that the island wasn’t done with him yet.  If she’s truly at the point where she now doesn’t know what’s going to happen in the future (as she told Penny), then how did she know this?
• Faraday getting killed sucked, especially when you realized it was by his own mother.
• We should probably assume Farady is older than 30 in 2007 just based on his looks, but wouldn’t it be interesting if Widmore and Hawking chose to have Daniel only after having seen him in 1977.
• So if Faraday kicked the bucket, then who was the mysterious voice we heard behind the camera in the Comic-Con video where Chang is making his plea for the re-constitution of the DHARMA Initiative (thanks Aaron for the heads up)?  It wouldn’t seem that they would’ve had time to film it together.  Perhaps Miles gave him the information, but it doesn’t seem to be Miles’ voice (he calls him Pierre as well, which Miles wouldn’t do).

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